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Vita Christi fecho por coplas.

Accession number
PML 76441
Creator
Mendoza, Fray Iñigo de.
Object title

Vita Christi fecho por coplas.

Published

[Seville] : Por ma[n]dado de Lazaro de Gazanis por mi Meynardo Ungut alemano y Stanislao Polono compañeros, A .iiii. dias de Abril. Año de señor mill. cccc. [et]. xcix [4 April 1499].

Description

cvi leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 31 cm (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, 1980.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf n10v: Esta obra fue acabada por ma[n]dado de Lazaro de gazanis por mi Meynardo ungut alemano y Stanislao polono co[m]pañeros. A .iiii. dias de Abril. Año de señor mill. cccc. [et]. xcix. [printer's mark]
Printed in Ungut and Polono's types 2:112G, 4:150G, and 5:98G.
Signatures: a-m⁸ n¹⁰: 106 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.4 x 21 cm.
PML copy missing 54 leaves: a1-8, b1.8, c1.8, c7, d1-3.6-8, e3-4.5-6, e8, f1-8, g1-3.6-8, h8, i1-2.7-8, i3, i4.5, k1.8, l1-2.7-8, l4, and n9. All leaves are heavily damaged at fore edge.
Binding
20th-century (Spain?) gray paper over paper boards (31 x 22.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands.
Variant title
Checklist title: Cancionero
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Salvador Barba (bookseller, Barcelona), about 1930 (see Vindel); Tammaro de Marinis (correspondence from GW in item file, dated 24 March 1937); Martin Breslauer, list xliv (1980), no. 40; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Breslauer on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, June 1980.
Classification
Century
Department